From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fceb4e36ba4d570f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 06:10:34 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark T" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: ada95 and uml X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:10:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.11.141.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 989586633 63.11.141.79 (Fri, 11 May 2001 13:10:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:10:33 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7389 Date: 2001-05-11T13:10:33+00:00 List-Id: > > From my study of UML and my knowledge of Ada, I have concluded there is a > substantial linguistic > discontinuity. Ada has a rich model of program development that cannot be > completely represented > with UML. Translating from UML to Ada or Ada to UML is guaranteed to lose > something in the > translation. > > What we need is a modeling language for Ada that fills the requirement of > linguistic > continuity. This is not only a problem with Ada. Eiffel also maps poorly > to UML. The Eiffel > community has risen to the challenge and created a modeling language that > maps well to Eiffel. UML (not most UML tools) is reasonably flexible and with proper stereotyping and use of existing stereotypes like << utility>> one should be able to create a reasonable mapping. Also you may consider just using higher order elements like <> for your modeling efforts. A picture is still worth a thousand words especially when being introduced to an existing complicated project for the first time. I feel high level design should be as language independent as possible. If UML needs more refinement so be it. Ada previously had a modeling notation Buhr I think it was called) but it didn't prove very popular and probably doesn't need another.